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Color Correction for Dummies. (And everyone else.)
3Getting good color can sometimes be a difficult task, but if you follow some of these steps and use the tricks I explain in this post you can make color correction a much easier task. Everyone has their own personal preference on what is “good …
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My Experience: First time in a PPA print competition.
Although I planned on doing competitions in past years, something always came up around the time I planned on prepping images to be printed for competition. And I suppose i was a little scared to submit, mostly due to lack of knowledge on the process. …
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Get the best of your Pro Lab
First off, do feel free to read back to my lengthy review of a number of professional labs as well as several chain stores and other popular printers to understand better what labs may give you the best service for your money. The Big Lab …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Final Results
Here it is, more than a month in the making! Many thanks to the people who helped make it possible by either supporting with donations or suggesting labs for testing. First before I start into the results. Please do remember that the color results are …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Update 3
Now that all of the labs and all of the prints are accounted for, I have started to compile data and put together some charts and have “graded” the prints for color compared to a set of reference prints I created myself. Of course my …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Update 2
So it has been a week or so since the last update and some more orders have been placed and most labs are now accounted for in the test. Just to give an idea what labs are under the microscope, I made the decision to …
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The Big Lab Throwdown – Update
So far things are coming along good in the Big Lab Throwdown – Photographic Prints. I have prints back from 3 professional labs and 1 retail lab. I still need to place orders with a few of the labs and at least one other order …
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How well do you see color?
So you’re a photographer and you prefer the control of doing your own color corrections and you don’t have any color blindness that you are aware of. All should be great and color should just flow from one pixel to the next…. But wait, your …
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Put your lab to the test. Part 1
Unless you print everything yourself, you either rely on a professional mail order lab, local professional lab or a local retail chain of some sort to handle your photo printing needs. But are you getting your monies worth when you send your prints off to …
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